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单词 garbler
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garblern.

Brit. /ˈɡɑːblə/, U.S. /ˈɡɑrb(ə)lər/
Forms:

α. late Middle English garbalour, late Middle English garbelour.

β. late Middle English garbelar, 1500s garbeler, 1500s–1600s 1800s garbeller, 1500s– garbler.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: French garbelour ; garble v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: In sense 1 < Anglo-Norman garbelour, garbellour official who removes the refuse from spices (late 14th cent.) < garbeler garble v. + -our -our suffix. In senses 2 and 3 < garble v. + -er suffix1.With sense 1 compare also Anglo-Norman garbelatour (late 14th cent.), post-classical Latin garbelator (15th cent. in British sources). In sense 3 originally after Middle French graveleur (1552 in the passage translated in quot. 1693; compare forms cited at garble v.).
1. An official or employee who inspects and sifts commodities, such as spices, to ensure any refuse is removed. Cf. garble v. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > one who
garbler1419
garblage1431
sifter1578
riddlera1613
siever1835
1419–20 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 202 (MED) No Maner Man Off þe seyde Felloschippe schall bye no Grene ȝinȝer..lesse þanne hit be Garbelyd by þe Garbelour.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. G4v You buy of the Garbellers of spices, the refuse that they sifte from the marchant.
1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 19 §3 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. ii. 1037 It shall..be lawfull..for the saide Garbler..to enter into any Shoppes Warehouses or Sellers..and if he..shall finde any such Spices Drugges Wares or Merchandizes there ungarbled,..it shalbe lawfull..for the saide Garbler..to garble and make cleane the same.
1829 J. B. Heath Acct. Company Grocers (1854) 61 Thomas Halfmark was chosen and sworn garbeller of spices and of sotill ware.
1986 Indian Factories Jrnl. 69 46 Garblers who are employed by coffee curing works.
2013 M. Shaffer Pepper ii. 25 Garblers inspected spices to ensure that they were pure.
2. A censor of literary works. Obsolete.
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1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 170 The publick garblers [It. assaggiatori] of Poetry..brought these two Latin verses to the test.
1693 in A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 430 If thus th' Athenian garblers should proceed Their great Bodleian library to weed.
3. A person who garbles, mangles, or distorts literary works, statements, words, etc.Originally with implications of deliberate misrepresentation. In later use also with the sense of inadvertent or accidental distortion.
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1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. Prol. 16 You Pettifoggers, Garbellers, and Masters of Chicanery.
1710 J. Swift Examiner No. 19. ⁋8 There was a farther Secret in this Clause, which may best be discovered by the first Projectors, or at least the Garblers of it.
1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 27 Feb. 325 You are, Sir, without exception, the most flagrant misquoter, the most barefaced garbler, that ever appeared in print.
2006 Mod. Lang. Rev. 101 323 The anonymous garbler of T.C.'s translation..adapted the passage.

Derivatives

ˈgarblership n. now historical the position or office of a garbler (sense 1).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > sifting > [noun] > one who > office of
garble1431
garblership1444
1444–6 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 287 Also to Richard Hakedy by thassent of the felasship for to haue Joynture of thoffice of Garbelarship.
1569 Proc. Court Common Council London Repert. 16 lf. 494 The office of the garbelershippe of spices.
1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xv. 239/2 Suit was made by some light Persons, for an Office of Garblership of Foreign Wools.
2000 Food Manuf. (Nexis) Jan. 19 The Grocers' Company went on to vest garblership in wardens whose duties were later widened to cover various foods and drugs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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